I nvitation Debate (Spanish-french) Migrant women - Convention of Istambul. SIEMPRE aims to make visible and to strengthen the networks of Latina women in Europe and their contributions and points of view on women's rights, science, education, and culture.
Invitation to press briefing Predictions show that the EU will face a shortage of 70.000 ICT specialists by 2020, much due to the small number of women in these jobs. In Lithuania, 25% of ICT employees are women. This is not a lot, but actually much more than in most of the EU countries. The future does not look promising...
Only 17% of the almost 8 million people working in ICT in the EU are women. Strong gender divide in digital skills and gender-insensitive working conditions are just two factors that impede women from persuing a career in this area. EIGE prepared a presentation of the latest research on gender equality in the digital world and what can be done...
With the aim to strengthen synergies and cooperation, on 20-21 February 2018, EIGE organises an annual consultation meeting with Civil Society organisations. Given the positive feedbacks from last year’ experience, instead of bilateral annual consultation meetings with the civil society organisations, we are once again inviting our key civil society partners to a joint meeting. The meeting will bring together...
Officials from EU candidate and potential candidate countries (IPA) 1 will come together for the 7th time, in a meeting focused on EIGE's support to the advancement of gender equality in the Western Balkan countries and Turkey. The meeting is organised under the framework of EIGE’s Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance Project and brings together statisticians, gender equality policy officers and...
EIGE's Programme Coordinator on Gender-based Violence, Jurgita Pečiūrienė, is taking part in the II International Forum on FGM/C in the Gambia, where she is presenting findings from EIGE’s studies in the area. The meeting gathers lawyers, policy-makers, community and religious leaders, FGM stakeholders interested to find global solutions to this harmful practice. Agenda and more information about the event can...
Bucurestenii pot semnala discriminarile pe care le sufera in oras cu ajutorul unei harti interactive a discriminarilor urbane, pe care o pot accesa via site-ul www.discriminari-urbane.ro. Dupa succesul inregistrat de Harta discriminarilor urbane care a fost prezentata la Festivalul Femei pe Matasari si la Festivalul egalitatii de gen de la Sibiu, locuitorii Municipiului Bucuresti au acum la dispozitie o harta...
End of November, we had visitors from Serbia. Our guests are part of a Swedish police support programme for their Serbian colleagues, aiming to improve gender equality within the police forces. They came to learn about EIGE’s work, for example how to accurately collect data on violence against women. Also, they have joind our 'Orange the world' initiative and stood...
European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has this week launched a report on Violence against women in the EU as a part of the Gender Equality Index. The new measurement framework sheds light on the spectrum of violence against women that ranges from harassment to death. The findings analyses women’s experiences of violence in all the EU Member States including...
Since the 1990s, gender equality advocates have increasingly urged humanitarian and development organisations to engage men and boys as a complement to empowering women and girls. This e-learning course introduces participants to principles, strategies, normative frameworks and policy approaches that have emerged from this work. Examining critical concepts such as masculinity, patriarchy and intersectionality, the course discusses why a holistic...
Gender mainstreaming is a strategy to achieve gender equality. It is shorthand for saying that the impact of all policies and programmes on women and men should be considered at every stage of the policy or programme cycle — from planning to implementation and evaluation. This advanced e-learning course aims to provide participants with comprehensive knowledge of gender mainstreaming and...
The concept of the conference is based on the understanding that development of human resources is the main component in the science producing process. Among all ERA priorities the most closely related to this issue is gender equality in research, concerned with improvement of work and life conditions for researchers of genders and leading to more gender balanced, productive and...